Ree. March 18 

 Ans. May 3 



Dyck February 18,1855 



Your Well~born f s 



small letter of Dec. 11 of last year I reeeived througlt Mr.Kimim f , 

 who at the same tine had the kindness, to a^n oun.ee his passage,planned r 

 for January 20, throuerh K&lrr, and who offered to take a smalU ship - 

 ment with him to St. Louis-, ünf ortunately ! I could not make use of 

 his kindness. : Winter has come, and frost does not pern.it the sending* 

 of plant s-, and I had nothing eise, which I could have sent to you.. 

 But, you s^eak of a letter, which' you have reference to, and which' 

 was supposed to be posted at the same tine as the above, which I have 

 not reeeived I t -Your Wellborn 1 s last letter to ne was of Jarnavy l8 t , 

 I853, and, thus, two years old.Since then nueh has hanne^ed, ar^d nuch 

 to (brouo-ht up to date. . I do not know, if you. reeeived. the seeletons of 

 Anhalonium and Pelecyphora; as weil as the issue of the Allgemeine 

 Garten Zeitung, in which I had lnserted a postscript to ny Cacteae 

 in h.D. eultes (in horto Dyckensi culteae, E.D..) . I know just as little», 

 how you have decided concerning the genus Manillaria, • and, further,, 

 I do not know, what you think about the mod if ication- of the character 

 of the Ist tribus*, to which I raade a decisiom - In that first- essay? 

 I did not say, what in my opiniorr has to be done with the genus; J^smir 

 Ilaria ,, knä this I say now in a further essay, which I en.close(under 

 book-post). ~+ The srermen inclusum r&mains the rule, despite the addi- 

 tion of < , plerumque , \, for the tribus Melocacteae, and even for the ge- 

 nus Hamillaria». Only in a few species is the berry protruding;- the sec- 

 tion - Anlacothelae forms an exceptiorr to the rule, and offers in an other 

 relatiorr (haraely in the inf loreseense) another, equally iraportanfr ex- 

 ceptiorr. All f Towers are positioned sideways in the genus Mamillaria 

 and positioned on top in the , Schinocacti . The £ differs fron the 



